The Salvador Dali Blues

Salvador Dali died today

he
was the
artist of
surrealist
fame

he
was in
my dream
last night
Picasso was
there
too

in
my dream
we were driving
down highway 41 in
a two toned Day-Glo
orange VW bus camouflaged
with make love/not war
graffito our destination
unclear but eternal
Jack Kerouac
sat behind the wheel singing
hang on St Christopher
the trees were
slumped melting
on the side
of the
road

Salvador
sat strapped
by two sea serpents
to the hood of the
bus with the sculpture
Mercury in Flight anchored
cowboy style between his
legs looking very much
like the grand master
illusionist

after all he was the
artist of surrealist
fame

Picasso sat
in the crimson
lipped back seat
with a nude and
a musician playing
Dylan on a mandolin
the melody
floating
in the translucent
velvet air

Salvador
summersalted
in a amusing array
of arabesque revolutions
to the top of the bus
the two sea serpents transformed
into a Rickenbacker guitar
and began to play &
dance looking madly
like a mix between
a prancing matador
and a matinee
idol

after all he was
the artist of
surrealist
fame

i sat
next to jack
in the passenger
seat scribbling on
a faded postcard embellished
with a Man Ray photograph
of Uri Geller
bending
spoons

suddenly in
the distance
two transparent
figures appear dancing
upon the Rubeneque
patchwork prairies
their language
is
Dada

William Sovern has promoted over 200 poetry readings in the last fifteen years in the Evansville, Indiana area. He is currently the host of the Tuesday Night Reading Series at the Jungle
Restaurant & Fat Cats Bar in Evansville, which includes local, regional & national
poets. He is the founder of the poetry performance group, Shakespeare's Monkey.
which has performed in New York this year at CBGB's, The Poetry Project at
St. Mark's, and at the Nuyorican Poetry café.